Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

P. J. O'Rourke

The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair.

Bertrand Russell

I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

W.E. (William Edwin) Sangster, W

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Thom Gunn

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

Kevyn Aucoin

I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.

Ricky Schroder

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Will Rogers

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Mark Twain

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau